ThomasApollus

joined 1 year ago
[–] ThomasApollus 21 points 1 year ago

I thought that actors on TV shows and movies were acting in real time, and that they had a special ability to do the exact same thing over and over again.

As I grew in the Spanish speaking world, I also believed that Hollywood actors spoke Spanish, and that their voices changed dramatically only by switching languages.

[–] ThomasApollus 6 points 1 year ago

Honest response: all of them. We have s societal structure that craves on people's insecurities.

Or perhaps tribalism is just a trait that it's very hard to get rid of.

[–] ThomasApollus 2 points 1 year ago

You don't need to portray men as vicious to make your point about women being virtuous.

[–] ThomasApollus 13 points 1 year ago

No thanks! Being a Christian as a Hispanic was enough of a traumatic experience.

[–] ThomasApollus 1 points 1 year ago

No way!

We'll continue to warm the planet with CO2 emissions until we reach a point where summers actually kill people in the thousands, probably millions each year. As poor people (whose number is increasing) move out of now uninhabitable places, we'll see a collapse of the economic system. Many big companies will probably not find a way to sustain themselves and will disappear.

Brace yourself for ever increasing cost of life, poverty, worse overall health, lower life expectancy, lower fertility rates and population, and maybe some water wars and food wars for some decades.

Humanity might eventually recover from such collapse over a couple of centuries. I think of it as the Bronze Age Collapse, but worse by magnitudes.

[–] ThomasApollus 1 points 1 year ago

Y'know, they changed the name of an avenue nearby my childhood house from a single word name to the name of an obscure politician. This happened 30 years ago. People in the city still refer to it as it's old name so much that they might not even know the current name.

[–] ThomasApollus 1 points 1 year ago

NO YOU!!!

Which one?

[–] ThomasApollus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That link better stays blue. What is it about?